John Walker
The Duncan Banner
October 07, 2008 11:25 am
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When a person or company wants to build a structure in a designated flood plain, they must submit a permit to the Stephens County Flood Plain Board.
Jimmy Pryor, who is the administrator of the board, said that there are five members who meet quarterly to approve or disapprove permits.
Pryor said that flood plains are designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In order for a county to receive national insurance, FEMA mandates that the county has to have this program in place.
Monday, during the Stephens County commissioners’ meeting, three individuals were appointed to serve on the flood plain board. Pryor had made the recommendations of the individuals.
Steve Kaeser of Marlow will serve on the board until April 2011. Both Dale Johnson of Duncan and Mike Allred of Velma will serve until April 2013. Also serving on the board are John Standridge of Comanche and Carey Rouse of Duncan.
In other news, a financial support agreement was approved for the OSU Extension Office in Duncan by the commissioners.
Max Gallaway, director of the Extension office, said that the agreement is basically a yearly contract between the county and OSU that lists what OSU will do and what the county will do.
Gallaway said that the agreement budgeted $89,978 for use of the Extension center.
“This represents the county’s portion of our budget,” Gallaway said.
This working relationship between OSU and counties in Oklahoma started well over 70 years ago, he said.
County Commissioner Dee Bowen said that they are a good organization.
“They do a good job,” Bowen said.
Also on Monday morning’s commissioner agenda:
n The board approved a maintenance agreement with Business Imaging Systems for a deposit imprinting machine in the Stephens County treasurer’s office. Treasurer Janice Graham said that this is a yearly contract with the company.
The machine stamps the back of every check for deposit that comes through her office. It also makes an image of it and then backs it up on CD, she said.
“It’s mostly for the auditor’s benefit,” Graham said.
Her office used to have the bank make copies of the checks each month, but the machine has made the whole process easier, she said.
“We’ve had the machine for several years,” Graham said. “Last month, we processed 1,200 checks. And that’s the slow part of the year.”
All the checks that go through her office come from the departments of Stephens County and are for deposit, she said.
Two resolutions were approved for county bridge projects. They were:
n In Commissioner Darrell Sparks’ district, estimated at $50,000, for a single cell concrete box that will go over roadway located 7.1 miles east and 4.6 miles south of U.S. Highway 81 and Oklahoma Highway 29. The box measures 10 feet by 4 1/2 feet by 30 feet.
The cost estimate is based on the engineer’s preliminary figures.
n The other project, estimated at $75,000, is in Commissioner Frank Kelly’s district.
It involves a single span steel girder bridge, 40-feet by 24-feet, to be constructed over Wildhorse Creek six miles west and 1 1/2 miles north of Oklahoma Highway 7 and Oklahoma Highway 76.
n One utility permit was approved to extend a waterline.
Brett Kimbro, manager of Stephens County Rural Water District No. 5, said that an individual is paying to have the water district connect him to the existing waterline.
“He’s required to maintain it for a year,” Kimbro said. “After a year, the maintenance of the line will be donated back to the rural water district.”
The project will bore a 2-inch PVC pipe rated to 100 PSI through County Road 162 in the northeast corner of Stephens County.
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